Driverless cars will soon be a reality on the roads of Nevada after the state approved America’s first self-driven vehicle licence.
The first to hit the highway will be a Toyota Prius modified by search firm Google, which is leading the way in driverless car technology.
This is an amazing technological step forward, I wonder how quickly this concept will proliferate around the world and how quick adoption rates will be amongst the public.
Whilst the vert 1080 by Tom Schaar in my last post is impressive you just can’t beat a bit of pure gnarliness like this bowl session at home of Pedro Barros. Would’ve loved to have hung out at this one, that’s some speed and power from the man himself.
Went to Tate Modern on Saturday to see the Damien Hirst show but as the first tickets available were for entry 5 hours after I arrived so I decided to see the Alighiero Boetti Game Plan exhibition instead. Read the rest of this entry »
I had to travel by train from King’s Cross in London to Leeds a few weeks ago, shortly after the new departures concourse at King’s Cross was opened. It’s a pretty stunning piece of architecture designed by John McAslan. Read the rest of this entry »
So I signed up to do a stage of the Tour de France again, Étape Acte I between again Alberville and La Toussuire in the Alps taking in the Col de la Madeleine and the Col de la Croix de Fer en route. Read the rest of this entry »
Visited Tate Modern at the weekend to see the Gerhard Richter show before it closes next weekend. Although I’ve seen many of his paintings over the years this was the first time I’ve seen anything approaching the scale of a retrospective. Read the rest of this entry »
The Good, The bad and the Queen, courtesy of wheelzwheeler on Flickr
I think that The Good, The Bad and the Queen album is my favourite of the last decade but I thought my chance of seeing it performed may have passed so I was all over it when the tickets were released for this gig at the Coronet. Read the rest of this entry »
